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Lifestream + Retaggr

As you may have spotted, I have a Lifestream set up on this blog as a place to keep track of all my web activity, plus a way for me to archive said activity. I thought I’d explain step 2 of this ‘aggregation’ by reviewing a rather cool service I’ve started using called Retaggr. From their own site, Retaggr is among other things a highly customisable ‘web 2.0 business card’ that unifies your online presence. By choosing to display it in many different ways (widget, button, email signature etc) you can provide links to all your online profiles easily and quickly. You can see mine my clicking on the blue ‘i’ next to my name at the top of this post or here. (Here’s the card for one of the founders, Nicholas Smit.)
As you can see, it provides links to all my inserted web profiles, plus room for biographical information and a photo. I can’t emphasise how easy it is to set up and becomes even easier if you have a FriendFeed account as by providing your FF username Retaggr can import all the relevant accounts.
There are various options for sharing your Retaggr information, including a Wordpress plugin which is installed on GregNBaker.com. There are as well all the usual widgets, buttons and an email signature to ’spread the love’.
There are far too many features to go through but here’s a demo page from Retaggr. One final point is the new URL ClickToAdd.me which gives you a quick address to hand out or email to people.
As for support, it’s fast and quick! The guys are quick to add favicons and other services (for example CellarTracker which I added last night).

© 2008 Greg N Baker.